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Michigan Quack needs firewatches!
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Stoops
Posted 2008-03-18 4:52 PM (#14029)
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Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US)		Subject: Michigan Quack needs firewatches!

Doc is going to undergo a shipalt tomorrow. He's sort of worried about the caliber of the FNs they are sending over for firewatches.....He'll be in the hospital overnight and then will be on the mend for about 6 weeks.....

He's not sure exactly what they are going to do, but evidently, when Doc decides to break something, he does it up right.....I was going to volunteer Doc Beeghly to assist, but Beeghly is still recovering from catarac surgery and can still see out of his good eye, so I nixed that idea....

I'm going to send his wife a sympathy card, along with the one I will send to the hospital staff.....

dex armstrong
Posted 2008-03-18 5:20 PM (#14033 - in reply to #14029)


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Location: Alexandria, Virginia		Subject: RE: Michigan Quack needs firewatches!

I hope he's not undergoing a squawking cat ectomy....sometimes bagpipers inhale inadvertantly and swallow the squawking cat that resides inside a bagpipe. Most of the time a good corpsman can shove his or her arm down the bagpipers throat and extract the damn thing...but in other instances the cat gets wedged behind the pancreas and you have to make aqn 18 inch incision with a Black and Decker router and jerk the damn thing out with channel locks...Saw it on the Discovery Channel. Best of everything Doc...DEX and BJ
Doc Gardner
Posted 2008-03-18 5:30 PM (#14037 - in reply to #14029)


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Location: Foothills of the Ozarks 		Subject: RE: Do pop rivets have good holding strength?

The tinsmiths are going to rebuild my leg tomorrow now that they've collected the requisite 100 proof of purchase labels from Campbell Soup and also kept the cans.
With luck I'll be back home and able to communicate by the weekend. I didn't know they still used pop rivets but I guess there are still a few technicians out there.
RCK
Posted 2008-03-18 5:40 PM (#14038 - in reply to #14037)
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Subject: RE: Do pop rivets have good holding strength?

I am gonna guess that what you broke was your medial malleolus and fibula and or the tibiofibular syndesmosis..........heehee.....you didn't think I was that smart did ya........been there done that.......so if that is the case you gonna be plated and SCREWED.
Doc Gardner
Posted 2008-03-18 5:44 PM (#14039 - in reply to #14029)


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Location: Foothills of the Ozarks 		Subject: RE: Michigan Quack needs firewatches!

you're pretty close. Actually it was the lateral and I tore the medial ligament. Your treatment is accurate; gonna get plated and screwed. Maybe they'll even toss in some baling wire and EB Green to make it look like a professional job
Darrin
Posted 2008-03-18 5:48 PM (#14040 - in reply to #14029)


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Location: Belleview, Fl		Subject: RE: Michigan Quack needs firewatches!

Hell Doc if they don't send my your snail mail and I will send you the tools to complete the job... I hope that your surgery goes well and you recover soon shipmate..

Darrin
RCK
Posted 2008-03-18 5:52 PM (#14042 - in reply to #14039)
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Subject: RE: Michigan Quack needs firewatches!

Doc Gardner - 2008-03-18 5:44 PM

you're pretty close. Actually it was the lateral and I tore the medial ligament. Your treatment is accurate; gonna get plated and screwed. Maybe they'll even toss in some baling wire and EB Green to make it look like a professional job


Well here's wishing you the best Doc.
Corabelle
Posted 2008-03-18 6:40 PM (#14043 - in reply to #14038)


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Location: Rapid City, SD		Subject: Plated and SCREWED?

That term is unfamiliar to me; must be something new since I last worked in a hospital. I think I'd be kinda worried about that "Plated" business!




Anyhoo, get well really, really soon. Maybe even sooner than that.

Cora

Edited by Corabelle 2008-03-18 6:42 PM
MAD DOG
Posted 2008-03-18 8:21 PM (#14044 - in reply to #14029)


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Location: Va.Beach,Va.		Subject: RE: Michigan Quack needs firewatches!

Had a similar mishap a couple yrs.ago.
They put a titanium rod in my leg.
Took a while to learn to walk on the damn thing.
Now I catch Hell in airports and courthouses.
Park Dallis
Posted 2008-03-18 8:34 PM (#14045 - in reply to #14029)


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Location: Anchorage, Alaska		Subject: RE: Michigan Quack needs firewatches!

Hey, Doc,

Good luck tomorrow. 

Don't forget to mark your good leg and your bad leg tonight with magic marker in LARGE letters so the sawbones don't screw up.  It happens.


Stoops
Posted 2008-03-18 8:47 PM (#14048 - in reply to #14045)
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Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US)		Subject: RE: Michigan Quack needs firewatches!

Hell, Park, now that you posted that, I bet Doc is writing all over his middle leg....."Put the steel rod here"!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too bad he doesn't have room to get past "put" :-)

Edited by Stoops 2008-03-18 8:50 PM
Corabelle
Posted 2008-03-18 9:01 PM (#14049 - in reply to #14044)


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Location: Rapid City, SD		Subject: Paul -

I have a titanium "cage" in my back. It has never set off am alarm in an airport or the courthouse. I just had an appointment with an orthopod today who wants to put a SCREW in my big toe. Strange place, I'd say.

Gad, we're all just a bunch of bionic people, arent' we?

Cora

Edited by Corabelle 2008-03-18 9:03 PM
docbeeghly
Posted 2008-03-19 4:45 AM (#14052 - in reply to #14029)
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Location: ConroeTexas		Subject: RE: Michigan Quack needs firewatches!

Ok Stoops, Would you like to explain just how you know that Doc only has room for "put"?
miss lumpy bumps
Posted 2008-03-19 6:01 AM (#14055 - in reply to #14037)


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Location: Wappingers Falls, NY		Subject: RE: Do pop rivets have good holding strength?

Hey Fred,

Garry and I want to wish you all the best. You will be in our thoughts and prayers...and tell those
"cutups", you want only the best...

Does anyone out there know how we can scrounge some parts from a few "old boats"...now that's what
you need in you...and few drops of diesel to keep the old engine going...
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